CUPO v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 5968.

285 A.2d 696 (1972)

L. S. CUPO, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Price, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and NEBEKER and REILLY, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This appeal arises out of an action commenced by information in the name of the District of Columbia to determine paternity which was initiated just prior to the effective date of the District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act of 1970.1 Appellant makes a jurisdictional contention based on the assertion that the Corporation Counsel had no authority to continue to prosecute the case after the effective...

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